Need Assistance With A Nero Issue

[Leevis]

Hi Everyone
Not sure if anyone can help or if I am in the wrong place but I need some assistance with a problem I have encountered.
Basically, the problem is thus. I have loads of movies and mp3s and things on my PC which I needed to back up as I needed to re-install windows.
What I did was burn all of this data onto DVDs (DVDR) and then reinstall windows.
At this point everything was fine, until I go to view the disks.
What happens is, on some disks that I have burnt, I get the autorun thing working (i am on XP Pro) which lets me view whatever is on the disk. Everything is there fine. However, when I try to copy some of the files back onto my pc from the disks I get a major lock up and the only way of stopping it is to end task on explorer.exe or remove the disk.
This is a real bummer because I really want the files that are on these disks but cannot seem to get them. Not sure if it is related to my pc or not as I have not tried these on another pc.
I was wondering if anyone else has had the same/similar issue. I seems that the files have burnt ok, only problem is some disks cannot seem to let me copy the files back.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Lee

 

[LTR12101B]

Did you verify when burning, or scan the result with a test utility?

I suspect the burn quality may be poor, in which case you may have to try another drive to read it, or hold the speed down.

I was going to say, try Nero Drivespeed, but that only mentions adjusting the reading speed for CD.

If your drive is supported for scanning, try a quality check in Nero CDspeed - you may have to hold LEFT SHIFT while insering the disk, if the trapping of it by Windows is causing a problem.

 

[Leevis]

I didnt verify at all, for any of the disks. Normally what I do is, burn disk, eject disk, insert disk to see if the data is on the disk and then if it can be seen on the disk I assume (maybe not correctly) that the disk is good.

Really wierd that it has worked fine on some and not on others.

Do, do you think that using a different DVD drive might work ? I have 2 drives on my pc, a DVD reader and a DVD rewriter. Only the rewriter is on at the moment because I need to get a longer IDE Cable. Maybe if I browsed the files on the other one I might be able to copy them. Fingers crossed.

 

[LTR12101B]

Seeing the directory is no guarantee of good data, so I'd suggest using verify on any subsequent burns. Of course, the only thing that verify proves is that it can read it RIGHT NOW in that drive - if you hear the drive speed-hunting excessively during verify, that's a bad sign

If I have trouble reading, I always try EVERY drive that can do it - often the writer is the best at reading its own results, but it depends...

What drives are they?

The two opposites are probably Liteon (rather iffy DVD writer, but strong reader), and NEC (tends to be a better writer, but read performance leaves something to be desired).

And what media?

It certainly sounds like your writer and media are giving marginal quality results, on the ragged edge of readability, so thrownin another drive into the mix may change things, as the reading of a poor burn does vary between drives, but it may be better, or it may be worse.

 

[VIPER_1069]

you may be able to recover some of the data by either extracting them with isobuster or making a dupicate of the disk if it can be re imaged with blindwrite or something that can ignore any errors !?

but that could be bad media as LTR suggested so you may not get anything back at all

 

[Scrotumhead]

Same here

Hi

It sounds like the same problem as I have & I now think its down to Windoze XP pro & service pack 2 which I installed resently as well, never had this problem before with XP pro with out the SP2.

I have posted another thread about down loading files to try to sort it?

SH